On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 01:20:25PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > On Tue 2020-06-09 09:46:08, Daniel Axtens wrote: > > Hi Sasha, > > > > There's nothing inherently wrong with these patches being backported, > > but they fix a bug that doesn't cause a crash and only affects debug > > kernels compiled with KASAN and FORTIFY_SOURCE. Personally I wouldn't > > change a core header file in a stable kernel for that. Perhaps I'm too > > risk-averse. > > You are in agreement with existing documentation -- stable is only for > serious bugs.
No, lots of people run KASAN on those kernels when they are testing their devices, this patch is fine. thanks, greg k-h
